Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-09
THE RAILROADS.
Gainesville Completes the Subsidy to
Secure the Santa Fe Shops and
Telegraphs to Headquarters.
What a Railroad Man Thinks About the
Fort Worth Westsrn-A Railroad to
the Southeast Prof ected..
Home Notes,

The Texas and Pacific artesian wei
was sunk several feet deeper yesterday
T. H. Thorp, travelling passenger agen
of the Vandalia, wss in the city yester
day.
T. A. Kerns, travelling auditor OF tht
Missouri Pacific, was in the city yester
day.
Robert Butter, cashier of the Pullman
Car Company at Galveston, was in tht
city yesterday.
Mr.. Parker, travelling auditor of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, spent yes
terday in Fort Worth.
Reclining chair cars will soon be run
on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, an
innovation the public will appreciate.
The engineering corps of the Fort
Worth Western, notwithstanding the cold
weather, are pushing their work rapidly
James Merryfield, travelling passenger
agent of the Ohio snd Mississippi, was in
the city Yesterday and left on the south
bound train.
There was an interesting and important
meeting held in the office of the Fort
Worth Western yesterday, and good will
probably result to our city from it.
Tine officials of the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande expect to be ready to lay track
before this week is out. Bridge timbers
and ties will probably begin to arrive in
large quantities on Monday or Tuesday.
Trackaying goes on steadily in the In
dian Territory from Red river. 1t is said
that fifteen miles from Red river fine coal
has been found and that the company will
begin to haul it as soon as their track
reaches the mines.
Men and teams continue to
go to the front on the Fort
Worth and Denver and word
comes that little army of men are now
at work for the Panhandle CONSTITUTION
Company piling up the grade. At last
accounts the engineers were locating the
line IN Carson courty.
A railroad official connected with
Fort Worth road gave it as his opinion
yesterday that one of the strongest cor
porations in the country was back of the
Fort Wor Western, and that the cor
poration was the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific. He says there can be no
doubt that this road is striking for
Texas from Kansas and The Fort Worth
Western will meet one line coming down |
through Montague county, probably At
JaCksbO1o or in tnat vicinity, and another
line IN the western part Of the state pro-
jected to e Paso. He says six months
will show that he is correct. The Fart |
Worth Western, he says, is a business |
road, and the incorpOratOTs could, if they |
desired, build TO Portland, Ore.
THE GAZETTE betraYs no confidence
when it states that one of the most pow
erful railroad corporations in this cOun-
try, if not the most powerful, has actually
given consideration 10 the building of
lAle of road from Fort Worth to the
southeast, and some OF the towns men
toned as those through which the
road will pass are Fairfield, Crock
EFT and Waxahachie. The route
has been pointed out to q GAZETTE re-
porter and the plans of the company indi-
Gated but this information came in con-
fdeDtial manner. Enough at this time to
say that the southeastern road suggested
by THE GAZETTE will in all probability
soon be built. 1t does not follow out the
course suggested exactly but near enough
for all practical purposes.